Word: nights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift of $50,000 to the Business School by the Grant Foundation was announced last night by Dean Donald K. David. The money is to be used to assist students working for degrees and businessmen who attend the special courses of the Advance Management Training program...
Later last night, Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of the Young Progressives, and John A. Balley '51, treasurer, said they thought Bonney's statements were irrelevant to the question and that any rebuttal by the Progressives would be similarly irrelevant...
...Student Council sent a telegram last night to Dean of Yale College William C. DeVane asking him to clarify the status of Harvard students at the dances being given by the Yale residence colleges Saturday night...
...father-in-law, Colonel James Chesnut, was 91, blind and deaf. But, as it turned out, Mary felt neither entirely bored nor entirely safe. One day she wrote in her journal: "Our cousin, Mrs. Witherspoon of Society Hill, was found dead in her bed. She was quite well the night before . . ." Mrs. Witherspoon, it developed, had been murdered. Her son, riding away, had foolishly told some of the slaves that he was going to punish them the next day. That night the slaves smothered the old woman in her bed, assuming, concluded Mary, that in the excitement over the death...
...Semmelweis' life. The medical world replied by nicknaming him the Pesth Fool and easing him out of his assistantship. The remaining years of his life were marked by almost incredible persecution. As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero. But his assistants sneered at him and his superiors refused to give him or his theories any credit. When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, met with derision, his mind snapped...